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[pfiir@pfinr.org: [ PFFR ] Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral']
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

Politically correct hogwash being spoken out about by a senior Googler: http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1… Google likely to hunker down on genitals-are-a-social-construct "diversity". Perhaps Google needs a lesson on PHP's BDSM For Life? Subject: [ PFRR ] Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral' Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral' https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/kzbm4a/employees-anti-divers… At least eight Google employees tweeted Friday about a document that was circulated within the company calling for replacing Google's diversity initiatives with policies that encourage "ideological diversity" instead. The document, which is the personal opinion of one senior software engineer, was shared on a company mailing list but has since gone "internally viral," according to a Google employee who spoke with Motherboard. - - - A lot of people are pointing me at this story, and asking if I know anything about it. I do not, beyond what's been written publicly. I will only note that -- as is pretty widely known publicly -- Google's internal discussion culture is extremely robust, and overall I consider that to be good for Google and its users. Again, I know nothing more about this specific document than anyone else reading these articles.

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Re: HAHAHAHA! Bitcoin will totally change EVERYTHING!
by Steven Schear 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

Its not mainly a money thing (unless they directly buy off the miners). If a large amount of the mining power quickly moves to BCC and the BTC difficulty factor remains at its last setting (till the next scheduled reset) then the BTC mempool will explode as the combination of 1MB blocks and massively increased block times make BTC useless. Warrant Canary creator On Aug 8, 2017 10:40 AM, "Razer" <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: On 08/08/2017 08:12 AM, Steven Schear wrote: I"m expecting a "flippening" between Bitcoin Core and the recently forked Bitcoin Cash followed by a crash in Core's value due to an exodus of miners. Warrant Canary creator On Aug 8, 2017 10:08 AM, "Razer" <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > Not. > > 'Not nothin', as they say in Peoria... > > > > https://quitter.im/notice/1986031 > > Rr > > > Goldman has really really REALLY deep pockets. So do their friends. They can make market, be the competition, and bury any other aspiring markets. That's assuming the people who migrate are GAMBLING AND INVESTING, and don't really give fucks about alternate, anonymous, society-changing, 'money'. Goldman and their friends will waste them. I speculate(sic) It won't affect those who create 'closed systems' of exchange as badly. Rr

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[THE MINISTRY] (((Google))), "free speech" bastion, Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

There you have it folks - free speech and the United States of America demonstrating the finest Democracy the world has ever seen, and a people upstanding and upholding of its proclaimed foundation principles. Since speaking out at Google, internally, violates their code of conduct. Or something ... Google, the CoC swinging "compliance demanded" company! (I guess we can say "at least they hired a hook nosed highly paid executive (((VP of Diversity))) to do their dirty work", since (((Brin))) is suck a f*cking coward, evidently..) Fantastic opportunity for this James Damore to kick off a company targetting sane people, employing sane people, and marketing to sane people, and raising money from sane people. Good luck James... Subject: [ PFR ] Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-be… Alphabet Inc.'s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web company's diversity policies, creating a firestorm across Silicon Valley. James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, saying that he had been fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes." A Google representative didn't immediately return a request for comment. Google's Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees on Monday that said portions of the employee's memo "violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace." But he didn't say if the company was taking action against the employee. (You know, since firing a long term high level engineer employee is "not" taking action... f*cking cowards at Google, evidently!)

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[pfr@pfr.org: [ PFR ] This is the article that gives the best overview of Google's leaked "diversity" manifesto controversy]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

----- Forwarded message from "PFR (People For Idigenous Responsibility) Announcement List" <pfr(a)pfr.org> ----- This is the article that gives the best overview of Google's leaked "diversity" manifesto controversy fom a Leftist extremist pov, whilst attempting to couch that point of view in politically correct speak, whilst giving absolutely no heed to the substance of the grievance at hand. Google just hired a hook nosed diversity VP -- just as it struggles with a sexist memo from an employee who is actually a senior engineer, and likely actually knows something about computers, which is not a prerequisite for the job of "Google VP of Hook Nosed (((Diversity)))". Read it and weep at the lack of objectivity, and indeed of anyrhing resembling rationality or empathy: https://www.recode.net/2017/8/5/16102476/google-diversity-vp-employee-memo - - - I'll be discussing this for a few minutes around ~10:06 PM PDT tonight on "Coast to Coast AM" radio. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren(a)vortex.com) https://www.vortexx.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortexx.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortexx.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortexx.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfr.org/pfr-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+(((LaurenWeinstein))) Twitter: https://twitter.com/(((laurenweinstein))) Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 --- Impeach Trump because "DEMOCRACY" --- _______________________________________________ pfr mailing list https://lists.pfr.org/mailman/listinfo/pfr ----- End forwarded message -----

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by b0z0＠SDF.ORG 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

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House Judiciary Committee taps /r/The_Donald subreddit for Amended Resolution
by Razer 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

> > If this sounds like the work of conspiracy theorists, that’s because > that’s exactly what it is. > > LawFare: The House Judiciary Committee has a unique role to play in times of great national crisis in the functioning of the presidency. As the congressional body with jurisdiction over the initial stages of the impeachment process, it’s the committee’s responsibility to weigh whether the president’s misconduct is sufficiently severe so as to merit what Charles Black refers to as “this most drastic of measures.” Fortunately, Chairman Bob Goodlatte and the Republican members of his committee are up to the task. Last week, with Russia matters heating up and the White House in full meltdown, they stayed focused on the real danger at hand: Huma Abedin. The committee voted to adopt an amended resolution introduced by Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) calling for a special counsel investigation into, variously, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s instructions to former FBI Director James Comey to refer to the Clinton email probe as a “matter” rather than an “investigation”; Comey’s leaks to Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman; Comey’s leaks to New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt as far back as 1993 (when Schmidt, who graduated college in 2005, would have been around ten years old); “collusion” between Comey and Robert Mueller; any knowledge by Comey of the Steele dossier and of efforts by the intelligence community to surveill Trump or unmask his associates in a quest to damage Trump’s campaign or his presidency; immunity deals provided by the FBI to various Clinton aides over the course of the email investigation; whether Clinton secretly approved a deal to transfer U.S. uranium deposits to Russian control in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation; and yes, the specific circumstances of Huma Abedin’s employment at the State Department. If this sounds like the work of conspiracy theorists, that’s because that’s exactly what it is. Wired reported on Friday that a Gaetz staffer appears to have crowdsourced the amended resolution with the help of r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit notorious for both its embrace of conspiracy theories and its gleeful offensiveness. The Reddit user, “Devinm666,” regularly posted on the forum praising Gaetz, referencing his work in Congress, and at one point publishing a picture of his congressional ID badge with his name and face blacked out. According to Wired, Gaetz confirmed that “Devinm666” is Devin Murphy, a legislative aide in his office. “I work for Congress and have been asked to come up with a list of Clinton/Obama/election scandals for my boss ASAP,” Murphy apparently posted on Reddit, asking for suggestions. “This is not a shitpost. This is real. Congressional investigation. Do it for America!” So r/The_Donald rose to the occasion and did it for America. The text in question is not a bill, but rather a resolution of inquiry. If passed by the House, it wouldn’t require the Attorney General to begin a special counsel investigation running in parallel with Robert Mueller’s investigation (and possibly branching into it in order to investigate Mueller himself), but would merely “express the sense of the House of Representatives that a special counsel should be appointed.” That may be for the best, as there is already an investigation into a number of the issues listed in the resolution by the Department of Justice Inspector General. Additionally, most of the offenses fail to measure up to the standards for a special counsel appointment set out in either the Department of Justice regulations or the now-defunct independent counsel statute, which both anticipate possible violations of criminal law. This procedural note on Gaetz’s call for a special counsel—its technical status as a resolution of inquiry, rather than a bill—is key to understanding how it came to exist in the first place. On July 14th, Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and David Cicilline (D-RI) of the House Judiciary Committee introduced a resolution requesting that the Department of Justice provide Congress with various documents relevant to the firing of James Comey. After the committee took up the resolution, Rep. Gaetz introduced an amendment to scoop out the content and replace it with Gaetz’s request for a special counsel, while keeping Jayapal and Cicilline’s names on top. Gaetz’s proposal was adopted with the full support of the committee’s majority. Though Gaetz’s amendment and the majority’s vote were within the letter of House procedures, Democrats on the committee are—to put it mildly—somewhat put out by what they view as a “hijacking” of the normal process. But who can blame the majority? With the Mueller investigation continuing apace and the presidency spiraling ever further into chaos, you wouldn’t want a responsible body of congressional oversight to get distracted from what’s really important. Good thing the majority can boot up Reddit. Links to pertinent dox on page: https://lawfareblog.com/your-house-judiciary-committee-hard-work-peoples-bu…

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From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?
by Razer 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

Hackermoon... > 13.7 billion years ago, the Big Bang brought the universe into > existence. 3.8 billion years ago, life first appeared on our planet. > 1.9 million years ago, Earth witnessed a hominid species, Home > erectus, walking upright for the first time. > > And, 7,000 years ago, money was invented. > > But first, people bartered. > > Not everyone had everything. We always had something in surplus, and > we always needed something that the other person had. As the common > sense would have said, we started exchanging our surplus assets for > what we needed. > > Imagine I had extra apples and you had extra oranges, we could simply > exchange fruits with one another. > > What if I had a surplus of apples, and didn’t want your oranges, but > I’d love to have some strawberries. > > You would go and find someone who can give you strawberries in > exchange for your oranges. Luckily you find your friend, Joe, to > barter with you. > > Then, you’d bring me those strawberries, and I’d give you some apples. > > Joe, you and I are all happy. > (Did I mention the lovely illustrations?) > But what if Joe had a surplus of bananas, but he didn’t want your > oranges either? That would be a problem. > > The smart among us started asking a profound question, “Can there be > something that everyone wants?” > > Then, there was commodity money. > > There were a few things that almost everyone used, like salt, seeds, > sheep, and cows. They became the commodity money. If we had any of > these, we could use them to get whatever we wanted.... In full at hACKERMOON: https://hackernoon.com/wtf-is-money-2a5d78072128

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Cicada: A Distributed Direct Democracy and Decentralized Application Platform
by /tech/ 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

Hey niggers found this. 3301 and pics related. Cicada: A Distributed Direct Democracy and Decentralized Application Platform github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform + /archive/master.zip ABSTRACT This paper outlines a revolutionary, open source, decentralized application platform (DAPP) along with its first major application, a distributed direct democracy (DDD). To create something scalable enough to run an entire nation with no representatives, we created two cutting edge technologies to serve as the foundation of the platform: 1] A decentralized, privacy guaranteeing Human Unique Identifier (HUID) unique to every person on the planet that returns control of personally identifying information (PII) back to individuals, allowing for revocable role based access control to that data. 2] A new Distributed Proof of Work (DPoW) backed blockchain that is immune to centralization because of a unified client/miner with only one miner allowed per person, linked anonymously to a HUID. Miners are randomly drafted into built-in pools, meaning everyone contributes yet nobody dominates. The system provides a workable UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME (UBI), i.e., it pays users to participate, since everyone is drafted to secure the network. It is incredibly energy efficient because it does not mine all the time and it is also storage efficient because it uses a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) of historical blockchain transactions, allowing it to fit and run on a cell phone.

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All VOIP-related crimes did not happen
by Ryan Carboni 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

I have examined VOIP-related crimes, and I have come to the conclusion they did not happen. If they did happen, a sane policy would be in place. (I have come to similar conclusions regarding Bin Laden, we never expelled any Pakistani diplomats) When you ship alcohol, many states require showing ID proving the recipient is of legal age. When you order an OVH server, they require ID. For Chinamen, they require a deposit. http://spitfirelist.com/news/school-shootings-are-technologically-obsolete/ Klinger said that Internet-based organizations charged the equivalent of $50 in bitcoins to create a bomb scare using automated phone calls, which account for 13 percent of all threats, according to her school security research. http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/03/bernie-backers-say-wasserman-schultz-inte… Defendants are very concerned that this was a ‘spoofing’ incident, whereby a caller unaffiliated with the Congresswoman or her office, used one of any number of means to place a call that would appear, on the recipient’s caller ID, to be coming from that office. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/cuban-telephone-frau… Well... to summarize this link concisely, basically international VOIP companies are violating common carrier rules and are spoofing recipient numbers with voice readings of books. Now there is of course another possibility. The police enjoy investigating things they can't solve, they have too many resources. Erm. Now if they spend this much time investigating things that they can't solve, couldn't they take a step further and petition their representatives to make their jobs easier? Clearly VOIP-related crimes did not happen. Is it so hard to code it so that if you call a number, you end up with "The number you have dialed is registered with a service that is prohibited from operating an interstate VOIP service in the United States." The illegality of some VOIP activities, I mean, there's nothing comparable to that of other common carriers. A congresswoman was the victim of a VOIP-related crime. No one has written a law. What will it take for anyone to notice anything wrong?

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[Cryptography] Trump wants to collaborate with the Russians to secure U.S. elections
by Don B. 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

> Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net > Mon Jul 10 10:15:28 PDT 2017 > > law > Is a social contract. > an instrument in the hands of State enforcers > The people are the enforcers of the state. > The State's mandate is to preserve and expand > The family. > the already too powerful > You sound like commieanon. > United States populaion 360+ million > 500 billionaires > 300,000,000 vs 500 Can't into maths. > own > Rent. > self-rule is not possible > Absolute nonsense, nihilismanon. Self-rule is the only state. > Justice means > classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html

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